Clapboard-marker.



- No. 772,677. 1 PATENTED 00T.1s,1904. E.B.SHEPARDSON.

GLAPBOARD MARKER.

I APPLICATION FILED M17. 29, 1904. NO MODEL. I

UNITED STATES- Patented. October is, 1904.

PAT NT OFFICE.

CLAPBOAR-D-MARLKER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 772,677, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed January 29, 1904,

To all. whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,.EDWARD B. SHEPARD- soN, a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of Greenfield, in' the county of that the inclined or beveled face of the clapboard will be conveniently and effectually marked preparatory to sawing.

Another object of the invention is to render the marking device reversible, the markers thereof being in a manner shiftable, so

that the marker may be used by having the gage members thereof guided by a part or edge located either to the right or the left of a plane coincident with the marking-line.

The invention consists in a device having equipments and constructed all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

The improved marker is fully and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

" Which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a marker as being gage-guided ata leftwise-located corner-board of a building. Fig. 2 is a Fig. 3 is a plan or top end view. Fig. i is an illustration in detail of one of the marking-disks.

Similar characters of reference indicate cor-v responding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents a frame or holder for the device, the same comprising a straight vertical metallic bar a, having at the upper and lower end portions thereof integrally-formed angular projections b 5, thickened, as at d d, at their extremities," and having the gage-guiding faces w in a plane offset from the side face of the bar a, and the said Serial No- 1'91.106. (No model.)

bar has the projections f f extended forwardly-that is, oppositely from the gage projections d d, which support and are united by the handle g I j j are the marking elements ortools, the same in the present instance being shown as constituted by sharp-edged disks, and these are screwed or clamped on a secondary bar B, whichby the pivot-screw 7b is intermediately of its length shiftably mountedon amain bar a of the holder.

In making the device for practical use the length of the holder may advantageously be about eight inches long from end to end, and the half-dozen marking-disks may be in separation on the carrying-bar B therefor about one and three-eighths inches apart. The line of the centers of the disks is inclined slightly to the general vertical or longitudinal line of the holder corresponding to the inclination of the face of a clapboard, it being perceived that the upper disks have their edges disposed farther inward than the lower disks, so that a comparatively slight downward motion of the implement will give a continuous marking squarely across the face of the clapboard, although the extent of bodily movement of the marker is but fractional of the width of the clapboard.

The manner of use-of the implement shown in Fig. l is Where the clapboard is placed against a vertical corner-board of a building, the guiding-surfaces w m of the gages facing leftward and being in guiding contact against the right-hand edge of the corner-board, and

the sharp edgesof the marking-disks j, as shown in Fig. 3, are in a plane substantially coincident with the gage-guiding face at, so that the line of marking of the clapboard, for instance, placed in the relation shown will be such that when sawed off the clapboard may fit closely up to the right-hand edge of the corner-board. Now in case the implement is to be used at the other end of the building,

where the gage-facets would have. its guiding contact at the left instead of the right edge of a corner-board, the implement would be reversed-that is, turned upside down-- and the marking disk-carrying bar B would be swung to reverse inclination from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that the then upper disks would be as far laterally distended in excess of the relatively lower ones as indicated in the illustration for the first-position arrangement of the parts.

As means for shifting the secondary bar B so that the inner edges of all of the disks will be tangent to a line properly inclined down- Wardly and forwardly corresponding to the bevel of the clapboard, whether the implement is used with either end uppermost and the guiding gage-faces for leftward or rightward presentation, elbow-levers C C are pivotally mounted at m m on forward] y-extendin g projections at the extremities of the vertical bar a, the inner arm of each lever being cooperatively adjacent an end of the shiftable diskcarrying bar, While the other arm of the angular lever has, as apparent in Fig. 1, a location to be conveniently pressed against by the thumb of the same hand which grasps the handle, and all so that in use the thumb of the hand which carries the implementmaintains the bar and disks for their proper marking presentation.

I do not desire to limit myself to the particular means for shifting and holding the disk-carrying bar in either of its swung po sitions, as shown, nor do 1 wish to limit the invention necessarily to the provision of a shiftable bar for the disks, although the provision for reversing the positions of the markers is highly advantageous and adds greatly to the value and capacity of the device. The disks are understood as clamped and non-rotatable on the supporting part therefor, although as occasion therefor requires the confining-screws may be loosened and the disks turned part Way around for the presentation of a fresh and sharp-edged portion.

The forward edges 0 0 of the widened or offset gage extremities d constitute stops or abutments, so that the shiftable secondary bar will when swung have its movement limited to insure the presentation of the marking or Working points or edges of the markers at the appropriate inclination.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a clapboard-marking device, a holder provided with gage-gm id ing means, a bar movably mounted on the holder and carrying marking devices, and independent means on the holder and respectively engaging each end of the bar to move the same to change its angle of inclination with relation to the holder, so that all themarkingdevices maybe sinu'lltaneously brought into engagement with surfaces of varying inclination and whereby the device is rendered reversible to be employed in conjunction with a guiding-surface having a rightward or leftward presentation.

2. Ina clapboard-marking device, a holder having a vertical main bar a a forwardlylo cated carrying-handle, and rearwardly-extended upper and lower extensions having oil'- set gage-guiding extremities (I, the secondary bar B intermediately pivotally connected to the bar a and having a plurality of separated markers, the working points or edges of which are in a line coincident with the plane of the guiding-faces of said gage extensions, and means for holding the secondary bar to the limits of its shifted positions.

3. in a chmboard-marking device, a holder consisting of a main vertical bar (4 having at its opposite ends the rearwardly-projecting extensions widened at their extremities and constituting by the sides thereof gage-guiding surfaces, and the forward extensions united by the carrying-handlc, combined with the bar B, intermediately pivotally connected on the side of the main bar (1, and having a plurality of markers, the working portions of which are arranged in a line coincident with the plane of the gage-guiding surfaces, and the angle-levers U C pivot-ally mounted at opposite end portions of the holder and individually operable on the pivotally-mounted secondary bar.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IEDlVARJl) B. SHEPARDSON. lVitnesses:

A. V. LuAuY, W. S. BELLOWS. 

